Too Close

Don't hold me too close
so's I can't breathe

For your fears will
not be relieved

I'll try not to leave
but back up farther

For perhaps what you fear
will become very real

So love me from afar
like some movie star

And we'll get on better
Copyright © | Year Posted 2005

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